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...HENRY CABOT LODGE, whose agile baritone voice often livens U.N. parties, displayed the most catholicity of taste by selecting Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Handel's Messiah, Alexander's Ragtime Band, St. James Infirmary, and other Dixieland tunes as played by the Dukes of Dixieland. For good measure, Mrs. Lodge added her own preference, which is a long way from Whoopie I Oh!: Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major for Unaccompanied Cello, performed by Pablo Casals...
...Baroque and classical music are also included in the two-hour performance. Praetorius' "Canticum Trium Puerorum" for small and large choruses, brass enable, and organ; madrigals by Hassler killmayer, Marenzio, Monteverdi, and Morley; and three choruses from Handel's Solomon will be performed...
Harold C. Schmidt, professor of Music at Stanford University, will direct the Chorus. G. Wallace Woodworth, who conducted the Harvard Glee Club for 25 years and the Radcliffe Choral Society for 33 years, will return from Tanglewood as guest conductor for the Handel selections. Woodworth is known for his television series. "Two Centuries of the Symphony...
...phrasing reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald. To a casual record store browser it might signify the most exciting new popular singing talent to come along in years. But the voice is not new. It belongs to a great lieder singer, a standout oratorio performer (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah), and a star of such operas as La Gioconda and Medea. The singer: Eileen Farrell. probably the finest dramatic soprano in the U.S., who will make her Met debut next season in Gluck's Alceste...
...Handel: Acis & Galatea (Joan Sutherland, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, David Galliver; Philomusica of London with the St. Anthony Singers, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; London). A slightly cut version of the masque that became the most popular of Handel's works in his own lifetime. The score is fresh and frothy, the choral numbers a wonder of vocal crosshatching, and the performance controlled and clear. Soprano Sutherland trills her lines with transparent ease...